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Friday March 19, 2004
1:00-2:00 Registration (Murphey Hall)
2:00-2:15 Welcome (Murphey 116):
2:15-3:15 Plenary Lecture (Murphey 116):
Steven Mullaney:
“Affective Irony: Toward an Emotional Logic of the Elizabethan Stage”
Introduced by Alan Dessen
3:15-3:30 Break
3:30-5:00: Paper Session I
Textual Territories and Bodies (Murphey 118)
Chair: Megan Matchinske, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Megan Matchinske, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “Promissory Proof: Property as Evidence in the Diary Writing of Lady Anne Clifford”
Ben Parris, Johns Hopkins University, "Paging Dr. Bridges: Martin Marprelate and Territoriality in Print"
Toby Heman, Marquette University, “Herbert’s Holy Communion Poem(s): Lyrical and Sacramental Bodies”
Kyoo Lee & Deborah Tolfeson, University of Memphis, “The Liminality of Epistolary Passions: How Elisabeth and Descartes Wrote/Cured Each Other."
Englishness and Air [Murphey 104]
Chair: Alice Espinosa, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Catherine Armstrong, University of Warwick, “‘Heroic Minds and Loitering Hinds’: The Early Modern Body in North America Observed from England, 1607-1660”
Jim Egan, Brown University, “The East in British-American Writing: English Identity, John Smith's True Travels, and Severed Heads”
Jean Feerick, Brown University, “Fricased Bodies and Barbados Distempers: Writing Englishness under the Sun”
Alvin Snider, University of Iowa, “English Air and the Non-Naturals”
Fish, Invertebrates, and Angels: [Murphey 115 / 105]
Chair: Katie McBirney, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ian MacInnes, Albion College, “Adam’s Worm: Invertebrates in the Early Modern English Body”
Eric Brown, University of Maine, "Shakespeare's Performing Insects"
Marjorie Swann, University of Kansas, “Something’s Fishy: The Ecology of The Compleat Angler”
Tom Lolis, University of Miami, “Angelic Conversations and the Cartography of Interiority: Realignments of Celestial and Spiritual Bodies in the writings of John Dee and John Milton”
5:00-5:15 Break
5:15-6:15 Plenary Lecture (Murphey 116):
John Sutton: “The Cognitive Life of Things: External Memory and Social Memory in Early Modern Culture”
Introduced by Garrett Sullivan.
6:30-8:00 Reception at the Institute of Arts and Humanities in Hyde Hall
Saturday, March 20, 2004
7:45-8:30 Continental Breakfast (Murphey Hall)
8:30-9:30 Plenary Lecture (Murphey 116):
Gail Kern Paster: "Air and Anger: The Pneumatics of Quarreling in Shakespeare and Jonson"
Introduced by Mary Floyd-Wilson.
9:30-9:40 Break
9:40-11:15 Paper Session II
Theater and Audience [Murphey 104]
Chair: Lisa Klotz, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
David Hillman, Cambridge University, “Homo Clausus at the Theatre”
Gina Bloom, Lawrence University, “’Like Breath into Wind’: Vocal Agency and the Acoustic Environment in Shakespeare”
P. A. Skantze, Independent Scholar, “Inhabiting Receptive Bodies in the World of Early Modern Theatre”
Allison Hobgood, Emory University, "’Notorious Abuses’ in Renaissance Drama: Shame and its Audience Accomplice”
Pain, Childbirth, and Disease [Murphey 115 / 105]
Chair: James Truman, Auburn University
James Truman, Auburn University, “Childbirth and Power on the Renaissance Stage”
Jennifer Heller, Sweet Briar College, “Politics, the Paternal Body, and Patriarchal Authority”
Susan Staub, Appalachian State University, “Anatomy Lessons: Pregnancy, Illegitimacy and Social Control in an Interregnum News Pamphlet”
Rebecca Totaro, Florida Gulf Coast University, “Queen Elizabeth's Body and England's First Plague Orders”
Plants and Trees [Murphey 118]
Chair: Patricia Patrick, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
David Glimp, University of Miami, “Devotional Prosthetics: Plants and Worship in the Poetry of George Herbert”
Jennifer Bolton Verdun, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “We all came out of this parsly bed”: Democracy and Distinction in John Evelyn’s Elysium Britannicum
Vin Nardizzi, Duke University, “Pamphilia’s Skin: Natural Inscriptions of Desire in Wroth’s Urania”
Christine Coch, College of the Holy Cross, “Gardens, poetry, and Gendered Pleasures”
11:15-11:30 Break
11:30-1:00 Paper Session III:
Humors and Spirits [Murphey 104]
Chair: Reid Barbour, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Eve Keller, Fordham University, “Supervening Selves and Subjectified Parts: Early Modern Rewritings of Galenic Physiology”
Katherine Rowe, Bryn Mawr College, “Inconstancy in Renaissance Tragedy”
Cynthia Marshall, Rhodes College, “Dreaming of Invisibility: Nashe's Terrors of the Night”
Liz Wiesen, Columbia University, “Raphael’s Vital Body: Spirits in the Body and in Paradise Lost”
Material words: [Murphey 118]
Chair: Daniel Breen, Duke University
James Kearney, Yale University, “Mind in Hand: The Material Book and the Ongoing Reformation of Dramatic Subjectivity”
Tanya Pollard, Montclair State University, “Spelling the Body”
Nate Smith, Indiana University, “Reading ‘Sprites’ in The Faerie Queene”
Jamie Taylor, University of Pennsylvania, "Persuasive and Punitive Violence in the Examination of William Thorpe"
Art, Architecture, and Machines [Murphey 115 / 105]
Chair: Melissa Caldwell, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Melissa Caldwell, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “The Space of Art and the Subject of Art: Alberti’s Uses of Magic, History, and Utopianism in Building the Early Modern City”
Hanna Shell, Harvard University, “"Working Things Out: Embodied Clay as Hands-On Knowledge in Renaissance France"
Dolora Chapelle Wojciehowski, University of Texas at Austin, “Hamlet’s Machine: Violence and Vulnerability in Early Modern Europe”
Yvette Koepke, Willamette University, “Subjecting the Humoral Body: Temper-ing Sex in The Faerie Queene, Book 2”
1:00-2:20 Lunch on your own
2:20-3:55 Paper Session IV
Habitus, Impairment, and Prostheses [Murphey 115 / 105]
Chair: Amanda Bailey, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Will Fisher, Lehman College, CUNY, “Prosthetic Gender in Early Modern England”
Amanda Bailey, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “Bad Habits”
Leah Guenther, Northwestern University “Addressing Headship in the Early Modern English Barbershop”
Susannah Mintz, Skidmore College, “Disability and Inwardness in Milton and Traherne”
Bodies and Belief [Murphey 118]
Chair: Darryl Gless, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Timothy Rosendale, Southern Methodist University, “Kneeling Bodies and Liturgical Subjects”
Lizz Angello, Delaware College of Art and Design “The Flesh Made Word: Thomas Wright’s exposure of the Catholic body in The Passions of the Minde in Generall.”
Kristen Poole, University of Delaware, “Macbeth and the Physics of Calvinism”
Andrew Griffin, McMaster University, “’The Grammar of Beings’: Reading Identity in Jonson’s Masque of Blackness”
Traveling Bodies [Murphey 104]
Chair: John Adrian, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
William Kerwin, University of Missouri-Columbia, “Thomas Nashe and the Wandering Body”
Peter Parolin, University of Wyoming, “The Traveler as Actor: Faustus in Rome”
David Baker, University of Hawaii,“’Newly digested in the hungry aire’: The Frontispiece to Coryate’s Crudities”
Alan Stewart, Columbia University, "Euery soyle to mee is naturall": Environment and the Diasporic Body”
3:55-4:10 Break
4:10-5:45 Paper Session V
Ingestion and Excretion [Murphey 118]
Chair: Mark Jackson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Julian Yates, University of Delaware, “Eating Well: Or, Keeping Food on the Table in Renaissance Studies”
Kent Lehnhof, Duke University, “Transpiring with Ease: Scatology and the Sacred in Milton’s Paradise Lost”
Deneen Senasi, University of Alabama, “Ecstasies of Incorporation: Consumption and Convergence in the Work of Crashaw and Donne”
English Identities [Murphey 115 / 105]
Chair: Armistead Lemon, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ellen Mackay, Indiana University, “Watery Subjects: Naumachia and the English Imagination”
Armistead Lemon, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "Mapping Bodies in Early Modern England: Exploring the Relationship between Spenser’s House of Alma and English Identity."
Thomas Olsen, SUNY New Paltz, “Italian Masques By Night”: Violence, Identity, and Nation in Marlowe’s Edward II
Edward Geisweidt, University of Alabama, "The Humours of the Patient Man: Virtue and the English Revision of Phlegm"
Passions and Elements [Murphey 104]:
Chair: Julie Fann, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Judith Haber, Tufts University, "How strangely does himself work to undo him": (Male) Sexuality in The Revenger's Tragedy”
Elizabeth Harvey, University of Toronto, “Passional Language: Color and the Elements in Irigaray and Donne”
Bill Doyle, University of Tennessee, “‘All on fire to be abroad’: The Seductive Power of Travel Narrative”
Carla Mazzio, University of Chicago, "Elements of Thought: Air and Intellect from Lucretius to Boyle"
5:45-6:00 Break
6:00-7:00 Plenary Lecture (Murphey 116):
Lorraine Daston: "Imagination and Self in Early Modern Europe"
Introduced by Michael McVaugh.
7:00-7:30 Roundtable Discussion.
1:00-2:00 Registration (Murphey Hall)
2:00-2:15 Welcome (Murphey 116):
2:15-3:15 Plenary Lecture (Murphey 116):
Steven Mullaney:
“Affective Irony: Toward an Emotional Logic of the Elizabethan Stage”
Introduced by Alan Dessen
3:15-3:30 Break
3:30-5:00: Paper Session I
Textual Territories and Bodies (Murphey 118)
Chair: Megan Matchinske, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Megan Matchinske, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “Promissory Proof: Property as Evidence in the Diary Writing of Lady Anne Clifford”
Ben Parris, Johns Hopkins University, "Paging Dr. Bridges: Martin Marprelate and Territoriality in Print"
Toby Heman, Marquette University, “Herbert’s Holy Communion Poem(s): Lyrical and Sacramental Bodies”
Kyoo Lee & Deborah Tolfeson, University of Memphis, “The Liminality of Epistolary Passions: How Elisabeth and Descartes Wrote/Cured Each Other."
Englishness and Air [Murphey 104]
Chair: Alice Espinosa, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Catherine Armstrong, University of Warwick, “‘Heroic Minds and Loitering Hinds’: The Early Modern Body in North America Observed from England, 1607-1660”
Jim Egan, Brown University, “The East in British-American Writing: English Identity, John Smith's True Travels, and Severed Heads”
Jean Feerick, Brown University, “Fricased Bodies and Barbados Distempers: Writing Englishness under the Sun”
Alvin Snider, University of Iowa, “English Air and the Non-Naturals”
Fish, Invertebrates, and Angels: [Murphey 115 / 105]
Chair: Katie McBirney, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ian MacInnes, Albion College, “Adam’s Worm: Invertebrates in the Early Modern English Body”
Eric Brown, University of Maine, "Shakespeare's Performing Insects"
Marjorie Swann, University of Kansas, “Something’s Fishy: The Ecology of The Compleat Angler”
Tom Lolis, University of Miami, “Angelic Conversations and the Cartography of Interiority: Realignments of Celestial and Spiritual Bodies in the writings of John Dee and John Milton”
5:00-5:15 Break
5:15-6:15 Plenary Lecture (Murphey 116):
John Sutton: “The Cognitive Life of Things: External Memory and Social Memory in Early Modern Culture”
Introduced by Garrett Sullivan.
6:30-8:00 Reception at the Institute of Arts and Humanities in Hyde Hall
Saturday, March 20, 2004
7:45-8:30 Continental Breakfast (Murphey Hall)
8:30-9:30 Plenary Lecture (Murphey 116):
Gail Kern Paster: "Air and Anger: The Pneumatics of Quarreling in Shakespeare and Jonson"
Introduced by Mary Floyd-Wilson.
9:30-9:40 Break
9:40-11:15 Paper Session II
Theater and Audience [Murphey 104]
Chair: Lisa Klotz, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
David Hillman, Cambridge University, “Homo Clausus at the Theatre”
Gina Bloom, Lawrence University, “’Like Breath into Wind’: Vocal Agency and the Acoustic Environment in Shakespeare”
P. A. Skantze, Independent Scholar, “Inhabiting Receptive Bodies in the World of Early Modern Theatre”
Allison Hobgood, Emory University, "’Notorious Abuses’ in Renaissance Drama: Shame and its Audience Accomplice”
Pain, Childbirth, and Disease [Murphey 115 / 105]
Chair: James Truman, Auburn University
James Truman, Auburn University, “Childbirth and Power on the Renaissance Stage”
Jennifer Heller, Sweet Briar College, “Politics, the Paternal Body, and Patriarchal Authority”
Susan Staub, Appalachian State University, “Anatomy Lessons: Pregnancy, Illegitimacy and Social Control in an Interregnum News Pamphlet”
Rebecca Totaro, Florida Gulf Coast University, “Queen Elizabeth's Body and England's First Plague Orders”
Plants and Trees [Murphey 118]
Chair: Patricia Patrick, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
David Glimp, University of Miami, “Devotional Prosthetics: Plants and Worship in the Poetry of George Herbert”
Jennifer Bolton Verdun, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “We all came out of this parsly bed”: Democracy and Distinction in John Evelyn’s Elysium Britannicum
Vin Nardizzi, Duke University, “Pamphilia’s Skin: Natural Inscriptions of Desire in Wroth’s Urania”
Christine Coch, College of the Holy Cross, “Gardens, poetry, and Gendered Pleasures”
11:15-11:30 Break
11:30-1:00 Paper Session III:
Humors and Spirits [Murphey 104]
Chair: Reid Barbour, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Eve Keller, Fordham University, “Supervening Selves and Subjectified Parts: Early Modern Rewritings of Galenic Physiology”
Katherine Rowe, Bryn Mawr College, “Inconstancy in Renaissance Tragedy”
Cynthia Marshall, Rhodes College, “Dreaming of Invisibility: Nashe's Terrors of the Night”
Liz Wiesen, Columbia University, “Raphael’s Vital Body: Spirits in the Body and in Paradise Lost”
Material words: [Murphey 118]
Chair: Daniel Breen, Duke University
James Kearney, Yale University, “Mind in Hand: The Material Book and the Ongoing Reformation of Dramatic Subjectivity”
Tanya Pollard, Montclair State University, “Spelling the Body”
Nate Smith, Indiana University, “Reading ‘Sprites’ in The Faerie Queene”
Jamie Taylor, University of Pennsylvania, "Persuasive and Punitive Violence in the Examination of William Thorpe"
Art, Architecture, and Machines [Murphey 115 / 105]
Chair: Melissa Caldwell, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Melissa Caldwell, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “The Space of Art and the Subject of Art: Alberti’s Uses of Magic, History, and Utopianism in Building the Early Modern City”
Hanna Shell, Harvard University, “"Working Things Out: Embodied Clay as Hands-On Knowledge in Renaissance France"
Dolora Chapelle Wojciehowski, University of Texas at Austin, “Hamlet’s Machine: Violence and Vulnerability in Early Modern Europe”
Yvette Koepke, Willamette University, “Subjecting the Humoral Body: Temper-ing Sex in The Faerie Queene, Book 2”
1:00-2:20 Lunch on your own
2:20-3:55 Paper Session IV
Habitus, Impairment, and Prostheses [Murphey 115 / 105]
Chair: Amanda Bailey, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Will Fisher, Lehman College, CUNY, “Prosthetic Gender in Early Modern England”
Amanda Bailey, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “Bad Habits”
Leah Guenther, Northwestern University “Addressing Headship in the Early Modern English Barbershop”
Susannah Mintz, Skidmore College, “Disability and Inwardness in Milton and Traherne”
Bodies and Belief [Murphey 118]
Chair: Darryl Gless, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Timothy Rosendale, Southern Methodist University, “Kneeling Bodies and Liturgical Subjects”
Lizz Angello, Delaware College of Art and Design “The Flesh Made Word: Thomas Wright’s exposure of the Catholic body in The Passions of the Minde in Generall.”
Kristen Poole, University of Delaware, “Macbeth and the Physics of Calvinism”
Andrew Griffin, McMaster University, “’The Grammar of Beings’: Reading Identity in Jonson’s Masque of Blackness”
Traveling Bodies [Murphey 104]
Chair: John Adrian, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
William Kerwin, University of Missouri-Columbia, “Thomas Nashe and the Wandering Body”
Peter Parolin, University of Wyoming, “The Traveler as Actor: Faustus in Rome”
David Baker, University of Hawaii,“’Newly digested in the hungry aire’: The Frontispiece to Coryate’s Crudities”
Alan Stewart, Columbia University, "Euery soyle to mee is naturall": Environment and the Diasporic Body”
3:55-4:10 Break
4:10-5:45 Paper Session V
Ingestion and Excretion [Murphey 118]
Chair: Mark Jackson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Julian Yates, University of Delaware, “Eating Well: Or, Keeping Food on the Table in Renaissance Studies”
Kent Lehnhof, Duke University, “Transpiring with Ease: Scatology and the Sacred in Milton’s Paradise Lost”
Deneen Senasi, University of Alabama, “Ecstasies of Incorporation: Consumption and Convergence in the Work of Crashaw and Donne”
English Identities [Murphey 115 / 105]
Chair: Armistead Lemon, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ellen Mackay, Indiana University, “Watery Subjects: Naumachia and the English Imagination”
Armistead Lemon, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "Mapping Bodies in Early Modern England: Exploring the Relationship between Spenser’s House of Alma and English Identity."
Thomas Olsen, SUNY New Paltz, “Italian Masques By Night”: Violence, Identity, and Nation in Marlowe’s Edward II
Edward Geisweidt, University of Alabama, "The Humours of the Patient Man: Virtue and the English Revision of Phlegm"
Passions and Elements [Murphey 104]:
Chair: Julie Fann, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Judith Haber, Tufts University, "How strangely does himself work to undo him": (Male) Sexuality in The Revenger's Tragedy”
Elizabeth Harvey, University of Toronto, “Passional Language: Color and the Elements in Irigaray and Donne”
Bill Doyle, University of Tennessee, “‘All on fire to be abroad’: The Seductive Power of Travel Narrative”
Carla Mazzio, University of Chicago, "Elements of Thought: Air and Intellect from Lucretius to Boyle"
5:45-6:00 Break
6:00-7:00 Plenary Lecture (Murphey 116):
Lorraine Daston: "Imagination and Self in Early Modern Europe"
Introduced by Michael McVaugh.
7:00-7:30 Roundtable Discussion.